The Opelousas courier., 1887-12-03
FASHION POINTS.

Finked edges are the latest fancy on tailol
gowns.
Gloves are worn as long as ever with even
ing toilets.
Draperias. grow smaller by degrees-ant
beautifully lower and setter.
Fans as well as shoes and stockings are
matched with the evening or ball dress.
Shirts OF lace, sewn icAgthwise with ribbon
between, alternating with bands OF silk EN-.
bfoideFy, are stylish.
A f~ayorite hat for children is the sailor Of
felt, rolled up at the back under cluster Of
plumes Or loops of ribbon.
Partisan tosT?saTes are sensibly smaller and
less exlgent in inclination, but they say that
hoops are coming in again.
Haf-sleeves of silk Or moire, longest on
or close ones of velyet-and are abnormaliy
ugly.
Street wraps are made of cloth, while plush
and velvet arc reserved for carriage, recep-
tIun and opera wear; at least. SO say the au-
thorities.
Princesse gowns of two fabrics have the
fronts of the different materials, the right
tapping far over the left. winch shows MS an
under waist.
There is no prettier ball dress for a very
young girl than one Of yelling, white or
tinted, hemmed with cascades of soft lace
and tots of ribbon.
The most stylish muffs are soft-ever when
OF fur-with a velvet ribbon through them
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neck OF the Wearer.
Long cloaks OF the new cloths, with a bor-
der woven in the selvage. are cut with but
four forms, and have two ROW. OF ia ,border
down botk back and front.
The very newest and most elegant thing
for evening toilets is silk null, embroidered
IN wool silk and chenille, with just enough
beads to give the effect of frostWork.
Felt, velvet and plush are the approved
materials Tor winter bonnets, with the odds
III favor OF velvet, laid SO smoothly, fitted 90
accurately as to be the despair OF amateur
milfiners.
Artistic simplicity is the word nowadays.
and too many of Unsupported gowns look az
though they were born, not made, so etg
tirely spropos ia each fold to its place In Ike
combination.
The favorise holiday dress colors for little
girls are cardinal red. mahogany, terra Gotta,
pink, turquoise blue, and Gobelin blue in the
lighter agd ssrs shssa les; Nth oralding in gold, silver
Worth now orders that for evening dress
the stockings shall match not merely in
color, but in gaTniture, that is, show en-
breidsry or the flower or ribbon that gives
tone TO the costume.
Very many. of The newest tailor suits
show TWO coiors of the same cloth-fhe
darker, strange to say, forming the accesso-
fles,;coltars, cults. and SO on-and the
brighter the body of the gown.
Lovely, dresses for home receptions arc of
ALI COIGIH,
and worn with handsome very heavy silk
cord and. tassels loosely knotted about the
waist and falling at one side almost to the
bottom of the skirt.
Not content with the dist harinp Iieht
cores between the fingers, the glovemakers
are now trying on q patient and iong-sufeer-
ing public those with five rows of stitches nm
the back, which it is safe to say would make
the hand OF ~sosy-fingered morn herself look
like that OF a washeTEonlAn.
New sash ribbons that cost So to Al O per
yard nave a bias end trimmed with fringe
and gimp, then folded a quarter OF a ward
from the end and sewed upon the skirt at
one side, from whence the straight end pass
ing under or through the draperies forms
loops and q long end at the other side.
From Paris comes the news that il ia now
high fashion for bridesmaids TO apDear in
gowns OF cloth. dove or silver gray-and that
even now n then b bride, too, ventures
upon the 1n~novation-while milk or cream
white cloth costumes, braided, with gold or
silver, will appear at the opeA along with
bonIets OF velvety white fell.
Bonnet frames are 70 covered with velvet.
put on In loose. uneyl&i pleats and folds as to
need but little other trimming, the velvet
frequently forming high conicaf points above
the forehead; then with the addition of a
few curied cDckis feathers among these velvet
points and TWO or three loops OF ribbon on
one side and an ornament on the other, the
bonnet is made.